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Alden's Manifold Cyelspedia
KnoWleAxc anA I.aaguaxe,


knowledge ana Language.
One of the most extraordinary literary
enterprises Of the age is the work which
bears the above title. The specimen
pages which the publisher sends free to
any applican mt, shows the type which is
used-s good cleaT.faccd BREWER; also
the fofm-"Ideal" for convenience, easy
for the eye. handy to hold. The volumes
will average about $40 pnges each. and
there will probably be about thirty of
them-the manifold" number will not
be inconveEient; when you consult a cy
clopedia you are supposed to know what
title you are looking for; the lettering ON
the back Of each volume tells you at q
glance what titles will be found within,
80 you do not look in the wrong one
aud he volumes are so handy you quick
ly turn to the sought for page. There
will be several thousand Illustrations
no mere pictures, but everything Of I'M
portance that will serve to illustrate
The Manifold Cyclopedia is to be much
more Than a Cyclopedia of Universal
knowledge; it will embody also q Die
tionary Of the English language. How
often haye you consulted Appfeton's or
Chambers OF Johnson's encyclopedia and
failed to find the title YOU were looking
for-then consulted Webster's Una
bridged and were successful; the word be-
longed to the Dictionary rather than to
the Cyclopedia. Or you have consulted
Webster, and found little more than q
definition of the word-you must go to
the ~Cyclopedia for details OF knowledge.
Or, more probable than either of the
foregoing suggestions, you do not own
either a firs,-elass Cyclopcdia or a first
class Dictionary. or only one of the two,
because of their prohibitory ces4, so you
consult your Imagination" AMI go
hungry" for lack of the few lines Of
PRINT that would satisfy you! In the
Manifold Cycfopedia you will find a sur.
vcy of all knowledge which is illustrated
by the English language-and its cost is
within your reach, ONLY so cents n vol
INT for cloth binding, 65 cents for half
morocco. In this age of the world, no
general C%yclopedia or Dictionary can be
compilation, II ii has merit, is based up
on the knowledge fOEnd embodied IN all
its predecessors. Knowledge as set
forth in books can not be monopolized
by patent or.copyright-only the form of
embodiment can be thus covered. The
latest discoveries Tor lmasinings) of the
scientists. the latest finds (or frauds) OF
the psychologists, the latest theories of
the political economists-all are subject
to the sight drafts" of the latest Ency-
clopedists. Alden's Manifold Cyclic
Pcdia undertakes to combine in the most
convenient and concise (and yet fulD and
economical form possible. the result of
the scholarship of the world. up to the
time of its publication. Awaiting itself
most of the labors of its predecessors
who have accomplished the best results,
the Manifold Cyclopcdia, draws more
largely from Chambers thar from any
other of the family of Cyclopcdias, and
more largely from Stormonth than from
any other of the family of Dictionaries
the Chambers is an acknowledged model
for a Cyclopedia, but it is adapted par.
tlcularly to England rather than to
America; Stormonsh is the acknowledged
peer of Webster. Worcester, the Imper-
ial, and Murray, as an authority heat
without q peer in the combined sJsspli ties
of concisencss. clcarness. and aectraey
Of learning. No authorities, however,
are blindly followed, but effort is care
fully made to bring all matters to tie
generally accepted standard of the most
eminent American. rather than foreign.
scholarship, Editorial talent second to
none IA America. in experience and skill
is engaged in the conduct of the work.
he publishers past experience in Cyclic
pedia making (notably in the Library Of
Universal knowledge. now known-treh-
led in price-as the International Cyclic
pedia) is good basis for the pledges he
raakes TO his patrons that the Manifold
shall be Inferior to X other Cyclopcdias
in any OF the important qualities Of a
popular guide to knowledge Specimen
pages free. or n specimen vgs1uzss rasay b,
ordered and returned If not wanted.
John B. Alden, Publisher, 1903 Pearl ST.,
New York.